A 1914 Trio to Lieutenant R. Walmesley, 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, Killed by a Sniper on the Ypres Salient, 1914 Star and Bar; British War and Victory Medals, with Next of Kin bronze plaque, extremely fine, with photograph, the medals within glazed wooden frame with silver named tablet inscribed 'Laid Down His Life For His Country Oct 21st 1914', the plaque set within a separate velvet covered circular frame (4)

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A 1914 Trio to Lieutenant R. Walmesley, 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, Killed by a Sniper on the Ypres Salient, 1914 Star and Bar; British War and Victory Medals, with Next of Kin bronze plaque, extremely fine, with photograph, the medals within glazed wooden frame with silver named tablet inscribed 'Laid Down His Life For His Country Oct 21st 1914', the plaque set within a separate velvet covered circular frame (4)

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INDENT Lieutenant Richard Walmesley born 1890, London, educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, was commissioned into the 3rd Yorkshires August, 1910 and advanced to Lieutenant May, 1912. He was attached to the 2nd Bn. August, 1914 and proceeded with it to Belgium early in October where he landed at Zeebrugge and marched to the defence of Ypres. Lieutenant Walmesley was one of the first of the Regiment to fall - he was killed in a trench by a sniper 21 October, 1914 and was buried the following day close to the spot where he fell - about six or eight miles from Ypres (Bond of Sacrifice refers)